Album Rating: 3.5

It's a good album, definitely missing something to lift it to essential

Album Rating: 4.5

I don't know what it's missing. The only thing that'd make this better is time tbh.

Album Rating: 4.5

Tribe is one of my favorite hip hop acts if you can't tell

Album Rating: 4.4 | Sound Off

RTJ eats this alive definitely if you have no concept of what hip hop should sound like and enjoy half baked politicising over genuine creativity. tbh

This is good album probably the best 2016 album I heard so far

Album Rating: 4.5

Nah this destroys RTJ tbh

Album Rating: 4.0

"This destroys RTJ" (2)

Album Rating: 3.5

This album a little too soupy for me which can happen with jazzy hip hop albums. Prob an album I would have loved listening to when I used to smoke, honestly I'd probably say Shabazz Palaces do this sort of thing better now.



RtJ are the only ones really pulling off what they do so it's just a question of whether you like it, but right now they rule their niche.

Album Rating: 4.5

lol

Album Rating: 4.4 | Sound Off

lol [2]

Album Rating: 4.5

Your remark posted up there makes me proud row.



This album is the tits. Correct rating.

Album Rating: 4.4 | Sound Off

the RTJ hype has left me pretty salty and cranky. I've never felt closer to you

Album Rating: 3.5

Why didn't this lovable throwback by men a few years older than Killer Mike have a hype train of its own?

Album Rating: 4.4 | Sound Off

probably because albums made 15 years after the band's last, especially by a golden-age hip-hop act, are generally terrible? this was the exception to the rule really.



also I guess because this isn't SUPER POLITICALLY RELEVANT WHOA DONALD TRUMP WHOA SOCIALISM BUY OUR RECORD

Album Rating: 3.5

On those terms this is impressive.



Fact is that the members of RtJ aren't much younger and are still aiming to release their best ever material and get bigger.



The political thing, I haven't heard the interviews where they go off about this stuff, the lyrics on RtJ are a pretty standard mix. The Illuminati conspiracy stuff is pretty funny to me, enjoyable thing to rap about when you're aiming for an apocalyptic vibe.



You seem quite a serious sort Row so I definitely see the humour in RtJ, quite cartoonish - never imagined they were genuinely trying to politically educate. If that's true then maybe that's a bit tragic of them to believe their own hype.

Album Rating: 4.4 | Sound Off

the funny songs are actually my favourite songs by them and the only song I really liked on the new one was Stay Gold, the lines about the grandma are great



from what I remember though that was the only song that was really funny and the rest were pretty large misses/super forced when it came to humour - 'notice me senpai' being my pick for worst lyrical moment of the year



tribe on the other hand are always pretty genuine and effortless with their funny parts, Busta's verse on Mobius for example has me cracking up every time



I guess I've always found Killer Mike way too forced and cringey every since his days with OutKast, he goes wide of the mark way more often than he hits. El-P on the other hand I have mad respect for and his solo stuff is the shit but his lyrics with RTJ are so unbearably boring in comparison it kind of just makes me sad



rant over

Album Rating: 3.5

I definitely prefer El-p's solo work from what I've checked of both.



'Stay Gold' is a good one yeah, I will say the latest album would have been better at 10 tracks long.



This Tribe album I enjoy but it doesn't call out to me for replays, I've listened to it probably twenty times but I find myself zoning out of it at points

Album Rating: 4.5

This album begs for replays for me. So many great lyrical bits that always bring me back

Album Rating: 4.0

Can I Kick It? Well, hey now a rap record from 2016 I like! This is great, brings me back to Tribe's older stuff, cool beans. Haven't heard disk two yet, but really enjoying the first one.

Album Rating: 4.5

After extensive listening, this might just be my favorite tribe album